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Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal Office, filed a fifth supplementary Prosecution Complaint connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) before the Special Court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Cases, Ranchi under sections 44 and 45 of the PMLA, 2002.
According to the authoritative property statement, the ailment arrays 14 departmental engineers and officials of the Rural Works Department (RWD), Rural Development Special Zone (RDSZ), and Jharkhand State Rural Road Development Authority (JSRRDA), Government of Jharkhand, arsenic caller accused (Accused Nos. 23–36), taking the full fig of accused crossed each Prosecution Complaints successful this lawsuit to 36.
It further stated, the lawsuit originated from FIR No. 13/2019 registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Jamshedpur, nether Section 7(a) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 2018.
ED probe established that a systematic commission/bribery racket was operating wrong the RWD/RDSZ/JSRRDA, whereby a fixed committee of 3% of the full tender worth was collected from contractors successful lieu of tender allotments.
As per ED, the committee was distributed hierarchically: 1.35% to the past Minister Alamgir Alam (through his Personal Secretary Sanjeev Kumar Lal); 0.65–1% to the Departmental Secretary; and the equilibrium to the Chief Engineers and their subordinate engineers.
Against full tender allotments of astir ₹3,048 Crore, the full Proceeds of Crime (PoC) transcend ₹90 Crore.
ED stated that the 14 persons recently arrayed arsenic accused see Chief Engineers (Retd.) Singrai Tuti, Rajeev Lochan, Surendra Kumar, and Pramod Kumar; Executive Engineers Santosh Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Ajay Tirkey, Raj Kumar Toppo, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Siddhant Kumar, and Anil Kumar (Retd.); and Assistant Engineers Ram Pukar Ram and Ramesh Ojha (both Retd.), arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Superintending Engineer/Engineer-in-Chief Umesh Kumar (Retd.).
Investigation established their progressive information successful collection, aggregation, and transportation of amerciable committee amounts constituting Proceeds of Crime nether Section 2(1)(u) of the PMLA.
ED asserted that truthful far the national agency has conducted 52 searches nether Section 17 of the PMLA crossed Jharkhand, Delhi, and Bihar; arrested 9 persons (former Minister Alamgir Alam, his Personal Secretary Sanjeev Kumar Lal, and subordinate Jahangir Alam stay successful judicial custody).
It has also issued 3 Provisional Attachment Orders (PAOs) attaching properties valued astatine astir ₹44 Crore (all confirmed by the Adjudicating Authority); and seized currency of astir ₹38 Crore (including ₹32.20 Crore from premises linked to Sanjeev Kumar Lal and ₹2.93 Crore from Munna Singh) on with 8 luxury vehicles.
Earlier successful this case, ED had filed 1 main PC and 4 supplementary PCs earlier the Court and cognisance of the aforesaid had been taken.
